Semantic Parsing

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Semantic parsing studies how to translate language into explicit structures—such as logical forms, meaning graphs, database queries, and event frames—so systems can answer questions, access data, or support reasoning. Approaches range from grammar- and type-based methods to neural parsers and large language models, often using schemas, intermediate representations, or constrained decoding to guide outputs. Deterministic validation and execution can make generated queries or programs more reliable, while multilingual data and annotation methods help extend parsing across languages and domains. A central challenge is producing structures that are semantically correct and generalize to unfamiliar compositions: valid syntax or strong performance in one direction does not guarantee reliable interpretation.

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  1. Before Blaming the LLM, Diagnose the Workflow: A Role-Level Difficulty Profile for Translating Natural Language into Ontology-Grounded Statements

    Oct 26, 2026Liang Zhang, Benoît Daireaux, Sergey AlyaevSemantic Parsing

    NORCE Norwegian Research Centre, Nygårdsgaten 112, 5008 Bergen, Norway

  2. Useful Diversity or Hallucinated Variety? Persona-Conditioned Synthetic Query Generation for E-Commerce Search

    Oct 26, 2026Filippos Ventirozos, Tom Armitage, Mahmoud Oshagh +2E-Commerce SearchPersona-Conditioned Generation

    Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK · Autotrader UK, Manchester, UK

  3. Xing USP: A Cross-Family Semantic Contract for Information Extraction and Intent-Slot Parsing

    Oct 25, 2026Zhongqiu Li, Boyang Wang, Ruiyu Fang +17Semantic ParsingDocument Information Extraction

    Xingchen AGI Lab, China Telecom Artificial Intelligence Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd · State Key Laboratory of Human-Machine Hybrid Augmented Intelligence, Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Xi’an Jiaotong University

  4. Structural Automata for Neural Semantic Parsing

    Oct 9, 2026Xiao ZhangSemantic ParsingConstrained Decoding

    University of Groningen

  5. How Reliable are AMR Parser Outputs? Uncertainty Estimation for AMR Parsing

    Oct 9, 2026Anuj Kumar, Shintaro Ozaki, Yamuna Prasad +3Uncertainty QuantificationSemantic Parsing

    Indian Institute of Technology Jammu, India · Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Japan · The University of Tokyo, Japan

  6. Quizzing the Translation: A Prover-Grounded Evaluation Metric for NL→\rightarrowFOL

    Sep 27, 2026Pu Suo, Ali EmamiLanguage Model Error DetectionMathematical Reasoning

    Emory University

  7. Scoring Both Directions: LLMs realize the MRS they cannot reliably parse

    Sep 24, 2026Soham DanLLM EvaluationSemantic Parsing

    Scale AI

  8. The Communication Bottleneck: A Round-Trip Study of Tree-Structured Expression Serialization in Language Models

    Sep 18, 2026Xavier Suau, Alex Ferrando de las Morenas, Luca Zappella +1Semantic Parsing

    Apple

  9. Schema-Anchored Latent Reasoning for Semantic Parsing-Based Knowledge Base Question Answering

    Sep 17, 2026Guangze Gao, Zixuan Li, Sikui Zhang +5LLM GroundingKnowledge Graph Question Answering

    Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences China · Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences China · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences China

  10. Compositional SVG Generation via VLM-Driven Hierarchical Semantic Parsing

    Sep 13, 2026Sehwan Park, Taehoon Kim, Geonhee Han +3Compositional Image GenerationSemantic Parsing

    Dept. of CSE, Korea University · KAIST AI

  11. Natural Language Knowledge Graph Query Execution: Leveraging Controlled Semantics in the LLM Context Window

    Sep 13, 2026Blake G. FitchKnowledge Graph Question AnsweringNatural Language to SPARQL

    Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany

  12. Type Diversity Enables Transformers to Generalise Compositionally

    Sep 11, 2026Anssi Moisio, Mathias Creutz, Mikko KurimoTransformerSemantic Parsing

    Aalto University · University of Helsinki

  13. GRAIN: Bridging Name and Narrative Shifts in Real-World Graph Reasoning through Invariance-Rewarded Agentic RL

    Aug 27, 2026Zike Yuan, Han Zhang, Jianzhi Yan +10LLM Reasoning with GraphsLanguage Model Robustness

    Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China · Peng Cheng Laboratory, Shenzhen, China · Xidian University, Xi’an, China

  14. The Multilingual FrameNet Corpus

    Aug 24, 2026Beatrice Fiumanò, Nicolas Lazzari, Simone Paolo Ponzetto +1Semantic ParsingCorpus Linguistics

    University of Bologna, Italy · University of Pisa, Italy · University of Mannheim, Germany

  15. Bounded Semantic Planning and Deterministic Compilation for Reliable Enterprise Text-to-SQL

    Aug 17, 2026Yi AiText-to-SQLSemantic Parsing

  16. SemPlan: Benchmarking Structured Semantic Planning for LLM-Based Queries over Enterprise Data

    Aug 12, 2026Bruno Santos TeixeiraLLM PlanningText-to-SQL

    Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto (UFOP), Brazil

  17. NL2SHACL-Bench: A Benchmark Suite for Natural Language to SHACL Translation

    Jul 24, 2026Yuchen Zhou, Niels Bobet, Maribel AcostaLLM EvaluationKnowledge Graphs

    Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

  18. On the Role of Directionality in Structural Generalization

    Jul 2, 2026Zichao WeiSemantic ParsingCompositional Generalization

    Saarland University

  19. Predicting Causal Effects from Natural Language Queries using Structured Representations

    May 28, 2026Giuliano Martinelli, Piriyakorn Piriyatamwong, Abelardo Carlos Martinez Lorenzo +7Causal Effect EstimationCausal Inference

    1The World Bank Group · University of Oxford · 3New York University

  20. Anatomy of a Query: W5H Dimensions and FAR Patterns for Text-to-SQL Evaluation

    May 7, 2026Vicki Stover Hertzberg, Eduardo Valverde, Joyce C. HoText-to-SQLSemantic Parsing

    Emory University · Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA

  21. Structural Generalization on SLOG without Hand-Written Rules

    Apr 28, 2026Zichao WeiNeural Cellular AutomataSemantic Parsing

    Saarland University

  22. Legal2LogicICL: Improving Generalization in Transforming Legal Cases to Logical Formulas via Diverse Few-Shot Learning

    Apr 13, 2026Jieying Xue, Phuong Minh Nguyen, Ha Thanh Nguyen +2Legal ReasoningLegal NLP

    Center for Juris-Informatics, ROIS-DS, Tokyo, Japan · Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Ishikawa, Japan

  23. Structural-Ambiguity-Aware Translation from Natural Language to Signal Temporal Logic

    Mar 30, 2026Kosei Fushimi, Kazunobu Serizawa, Junya Ikemoto +1Semantic ParsingSignal Temporal Logic

    The authors are with the Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Osaka, Suita, Japan

  24. Enhancing Structured Meaning Representations with Aspect Classification

    Mar 25, 2026Claire Benét Post, Paul Bontempo, August Milliken +6ClassificationSemantic Parsing

    University of Colorado, Boulder

  25. The Semantic Ladder: A Framework for Progressive Formalization of Natural Language Content for Knowledge Graphs and AI Systems

    Mar 23, 2026Lars VogtKnowledge RepresentationKG Construction

    Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change (LIB), Museum of Nature Hamburg, Martin-8 Luther-King Platz 3, 20146 Hamburg, Germany

  26. Evaluating FrameNet-Based Semantic Modeling for Gender-Based Violence Detection in Clinical Records

    Mar 18, 2026Lívia Dutra, Arthur Lorenzi, Frederico Belcavello +8Clinical NLPSemantic Parsing

    Federal University of Juiz de Fora (FrameNet Brasil) · University of Gothenburg · Vital Strategies Brasil +1

  27. From Natural Language to Executable Option Strategies via Large Language Models

    Mar 17, 2026Haochen Luo, Zhengzhao Lai, Junjie Xu +4Algorithmic TradingSemantic Parsing

    City University of Hong Kong · The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen) · University of Science and Technology of China +1

  28. A Method for Learning Large-Scale Computational Construction Grammars from Semantically Annotated Corpora

    Mar 13, 2026Paul Van Eecke, Katrien BeulsSemantic Parsing

    Faculté d’informatique, Université de Namur, Rue Grandgagnage 21, B-5000 Namur

  29. Logics-Parsing-Omni Technical Report

    Mar 10, 2026Xin An, Jingyi Cai, Xiangyang Chen +22Multimodal UnderstandingSemantic Parsing

    Alibaba Group

  30. Effective QA-driven Annotation of Predicate-Argument Relations Across Languages

    Feb 26, 2026Jonathan Davidov, Aviv Slobodkin, Shmuel Tomi Klein +3Semantic ParsingCross-Lingual Transfer

    Bar-Ilan University · Ariel University